title: Osteomyoplastic transtibial amputation: technique and tips.
abstract: Treatment of severe lower extremity trauma, diabetic complications, infections, dysvascular limbs, neoplasia, developmental pathology, or other conditions often involves amputation of the involved extremity. However, techniques of lower extremity amputation have largely remained stagnant over decades. This article reports a reproducible technique for transtibial osteomyoplastic amputation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Grant Medical Center, 285 East State Street, Suite 500, Columbus, OH 43215, USA. drbentaylor@gmail.com
authors.forename: Benjamin C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Attila
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Poka
mesh_terms: D000671:Amputation, Surgical / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D000672:Amputation Stumps / Q000098:blood supply; D005360:Fibula / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D012039:Regional Blood Flow / Q000502:physiology; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013977:Tibia / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery*; D016474:Weight-Bearing / Q000502:physiology